In 1899, Joseph Conrad released The Heart of Darkness, a tale of grim horror along the Congo River.

The meals a pregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance or a grim chronicle of deprivation.

These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.

Their grim plans were evident.

So, this is a quick tale I'm going to tell. This is the Furby tale.

So, wonderful things and grim things.

A Greek Morality Tale

Japan s Nuclear Morality Tale

So, this is a pretty grim picture.

Marco Tempest A magical tale

And thereby hangs a tale.

A Tale of Two Theories

The Global Economy s Tale Risks

A Tale of Two Elections

A Tale of Two Terminals

So here's a tale of passion.

A Tale of Two American Economies

Latin America s Tale of Two Crises

But after four years the grim truth seeps out.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

That is not a platitude it is a grim reality.

This isn't story tale it's not make believe.

Now this might sound like a fanciful tale.

Families of the Paniai victims greeted such claims with grim incredulity.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

Malcolm Gladwell The strange tale of the Norden bombsight

It was a fairy tale, and then we retired.

This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable.

There's one more, I think, wonderful twist to that tale.

Well, is that a fairy tale or a living nightmare?

He was one of the great American folk tale tellers.

The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.

He heh... there's a tale behind that, for that place.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

I think we've all read the Grimms' fairy tales, which are, indeed, very grim.

And so, anyway, here I am. It's not a fairy tale.

So it's like the animal has the grim reaper inside of itself, speeding up aging.

Every fish that gets away grows with every telling of the tale.

So here's another tale of passion, and this is a sad one.

And the grim picture in Africa I love Africa, and what do we see in Africa?

The challenge for governments was to tale advantage of existing positive corporate contributions.